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This is bbc news — i'm lewis vaughanjones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. after four days of voting, the us house of representatives is still without a speaker, but frontrunner kevin mccarthy appears to be making progress. ukrainian officials accuse russians of opening fire in several areas — in spite of a temporary ceasefire ordered by president putin. a record number of ambulances were delayed dropping off patients at a&e in england over christmas — as the prime minister admits the nhs is under enormous pressure prince harry is facing a backlash fr...

Government functioning. these are huge concessions. he's also promised members votes on a couple of pieces of legislation a specific border policy plan as well as legislation that would limit how many terms in congress members can serve. that is a huge concession, jake, and certainly something that could weaken the future speaker if he can finally clinch the votes. >> all right, lauren, thanks so much. let's talk about this all with my august panel continuing strong on day four of -- >> speak for yourself. >> you look strong anyway. so he just promised progress. that could be one vote. >> yeah...

You'll lose some audio. >> thanks, sir. >> reporter: we'll have to wait here, jake. i'm not able to get any closer here, but the bottom line is that kevin mccarthy at the moment does not have the votes to become elected speaker. we do expect the fourth ballot or another ballot vote likely going to happen here because they've -- mr. leader, do you have the votes now? do you have the votes. >> i think what you'll find is the votes will improve. we have a couple people out for personal reasons but -- >> reporter: you don't have a deal yet, right? so, jake, i have lost my audio so i'll toss right ...

Great reporting. what he said was that they're making progress. he did talk about kevin mccarthy talked about the wrench, not that they needed more wrenches in this, but one is some members aren't there because they have family and other obligations, so that changes the whole voting dynamic. one of the questions right now is whether or not they're going to even go through the motions that we've seen the last several days and have the vote after vote after vote or whether they're going to do something that shows a little bit of a change and then vite to adjourn. democrat was have to agree to th...

The majority. and so it is nobody in the mccarthy camp expected they would win in this vote and he said walking in when manu raju pulled off the great choreography we saw that he was going to get better. it is getting better. the question is is it good enough to win and even if it's not good enough to win, is it good enough to convince enough republicans we are making progress, we're going to get to a finish line. let's stop the public flogging of our leader, adjourn and keep negotiating. >> i will say the sources i'm talking to are suggesting it's not likely that we're going to see kevin mcca...